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Last of the Billingsgate fish porters - audio slideshow

Billingsgate market began trading exclusively in fish in 1699. More the three hundred years later the City of London Corporation has brought to an end a centuries-old way of life for the market's fish porters by revoking a bylaw requiring them to have a trading licence. This is the story of the last of the licensed Billingsgate fish market porters as told by the men themselves. Interviews and photography by Claudia Leisinger